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What You Don't Know About Abolitionism: An Interview with Manisha Sinha on Her Groundbreaking Study
Lindley, Robin
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/168091Date Written: 2018-02-16 Publisher: History News Network Year Published: 2018 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX22209 Manisha Sinha draws attention to the role of Black abolitionists in ending slavery in the USA in her book: The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition. Abstract: - Excerpt: "Abolition was a radical, interracial movement, one which addressed the entrenched problems of exploitation and disenfranchisement in a liberal democracy and anticipated debates over race, labor, and empire." - Professor Manisha Sinha, The Slave's Cause Historian Manisha Sinha presents a wide-ranging and fresh perspective on the history of American abolitionism in her groundbreaking book The Slave’s Cause: A History of Abolition (Yale University Press). Her lively book offers an original interracial, transnational view of the movement to abolish slavery from the colonial period to the Civil War, while providing a corrective to popular conceptions of abolitionists as mostly white, armchair reformers or rabid fanatics. She relates a much more complex and nuanced history by bringing to life the black activists, slave and free, at the center of the movement as well as the interracial mix of men and women who fought to end the cruel scourge of slavery. Subject Headings |